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FA Cup delight for Tamworth fans - despite the result

IT wasn’t the result they wanted, the score they’d prayed for, the fairytale romance of the FA Cup. Read

Sun-seekers bask in Birmingham sunshine

SUN-seekers basked in a mini-heatwave yesterday as temperatures in the Midlands soared to record levels for spring.Read

Birmingham City: David Bentley's girlfriend on why she won't rush down the aisle

THE long-term lover of Blues football star David Bentley has revealed that despite his two marriage proposals, she is not in a hurry to walk down the aisle.Read

Stafford teenager Sam Hollyman snubs Britain's Got Talent in contract row

HE is the schoolboy tipped for music stardom after wowing crooner Michael Bublé with an impromptu stage duet.Read

Brum Yardies arrested in Scotland

YARDIE gangsters from Birmingham have been arrested on suspicion of trying to hook Scottish heroin addicts onto crack cocaine.Read

Birmingham market trader reveals his Cyprus jail hell

A MARKET trader has revealed how he endured eight months of hell in a Cypriot prison after being wrongly accused of a fake currency scam.Read

Heavyweight Coventry triplets mum hires personal trainer to lose pounds.

SHE broke all records when she became the fattest woman in the world to have triplets.Read

Dudley best man feared dead after late-night skinny dip at wedding

RELATIVES and friends of a Dudley man who went missing after going for a late-night skinny dip at a wedding reception fear that he may have drowned.Read

Man throws shoe at Pakistan president Asif Zardari in Birmingham

PAKISTAN president Asif Ali Zardari was targeted by a man who hurled a pair of shoes at him during his controversial visit to Birmingham yesterday.Read

Record number of Birmingham families emigrate to Australia

RECORD numbers of Midlanders are quitting the region for a life of sun and adventure Down Under.Read

Quinton gas double death pair 'had made suicide pact'

A COUPLE found dead in a house in Birmingham had made a suicide pact, the Sunday Mercury can reveal.Read

Chelsea Hyndman murder suspect Luke Walker speaks from prison cell to the Sunday Mercury

BLACK Country murder suspect Luke Walker has spoken for the first time from his Greek prison cell about his horror at being accused of killing girlfriend Chelsea Hyndman.Read

Chelsea Hyndman murder suspect Luke Walker speaks from prison cell to the Sunday Mercury

BLACK Country murder suspect Luke Walker has spoken for the first time from his Greek prison cell about his horror at being accused of killing girlfriend Chelsea Hyndman.Read

Man injured in collision with police car in Bordesley Green East

A MAN has been injured after his vehicle collided with a police car which had its blue lights flashing.Read

Luke Walker did not kill Chelsea Hyndman, insist the couple's friends

FRIENDS of Chelsea Hyndman have revealed the tragic truth about the drunken fall that led to her Black Country boyfriend being charged with murder.Read

Family hoping tests will strengthen Luke Walker's case in Crete tragedy

THE family of murder suspect Luke Walker are hoping the results of a third post mortem examination will strengthen the case to prove his innocence.Read

BMX police in Leicestershire accused of “making a mockery of policing”

COPS have been blasted after they began the UK’s first bike patrols on a marked BMX to connect with hoodies.Read

Birmingham singer Fyfe Dangerfield reveals the secrets of John Lewis advert

IT’S the soundtrack to the £6 million TV advert which has got the nation sobbing.Read

Al Qaeda war 'vandal' who desecrated Burton war memorial walks free

A Muslim who desecrated a Staffordshire town’s war memorial with graffiti glorifying Al Qaeda walked free from court after lawyers ruled he was not ans extremist.Read

Joan Armatrading honoured with star on Birmingham Broad Street

SHE’S a three times Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter who has been honoured by royalty and played for Nelson Mandela.Read